These posts are biblical teachings looking at what does the Bible say, what does it mean, and how do we apply it to our every day lives.
Eschatology is the study of “the last things.” There will be a sudden, personal, visible, bodily return of Christ (Matthew 24:44). We should eagerly long for Christ’s return, the time of which is unknown (Matthew 25:13). Primary Views Of The Millennium Amillennialism: There is no future millennium yet to come because
The two ceremonies (ordinances) Christ commanded His Church to perform are Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Baptism symbolizes dying and rising with Christ and having sins washed away (Romans 6:1-11). The Lord’s Supper is to be observed repeatedly by believers as a sign of continuing in fellowship with Christ (Matthew
The Church is the community of all true believers for all time (Ephesians 1:22-23 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all). The invisible church is the church as God sees it, and
Justification is an instantaneous legal act of God in which he (1) thinks of our sins as forgiven and Christ’s righteousness as belonging to us, and (2) declares us to be righteous in his sight (Galatians 2:16). Adoption is an act of God whereby he makes us members of his
While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the Gospel is to make much of God. -David Platt
